At a field hospital in Iraq, scenes of death and loss

Capt. Osama Fuad Rauf works on a patient as others hold a cellphone for additional light at the Iraqi army’s 9th Armored Division medical clinic.

Wounded soldiers and civilians are carried into a field hospital.

Maj. Gen. Raad Mohssan Dakhel stitches up a soldier’s face after he was injured by a suicide bomb explosion.

Wafa Abdel Raza, 39, holds her son Mahmoud Setar, 4, as the doctors give him oxygen and and fluids. The boy’s head was badly injured when a truck bomb exploded near their home. “We were sleeping in the house,” said Raza. “The army was close to us and we made food for them. They were waiting behind the house and a suicide car came.” Her son recovered as the night progressed.

Murtada Abdul Amir, right, was struck in the shoulder by the same bullet that hit his friend Muaz Hameed Hussein, left. Capt. Osama Fuad Rauf checks Hussein’s status.

Menar Hassan, age 8, cries as doctors try to doctor her wounds after a suicide truck bombing. Her father died at the scene and had to be left in the rubble.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Civilians are taken to Irbil hospital. The man at right was taken into custody on suspicion of being an Islamic State fighter.

SWAT team member Hussein Ali, 21, sits beside his comrade Bassem Bilal, who was badly injured in a suicide car bombing.

Maj. Gen. Raad Mohssan Dakhel treats a soldier hit by shrapnel from a car bomb.

At the Iraqi Army’s 9th Armored Division medical clinic, set up in a private home, doctors including Capt. Osama Fuad Rauf, center, gather around the body of a deceased soldier before he is taken to Irbil and on to Baghdad.